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verb fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
verb bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
verb shape or influence; give direction to
originBorrowed from Latin regulatus, perfect passive participle of regulō (“to direct, rule, regulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from regula (“rule”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). Compare regle, rail. Displaced native Old English metegian.
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